HOPE

"Not only is another world possible, she’s on her way.
On a quite day, I can hear her breathing"
- Arundhati Roy

Dedicated to Truett Collins

HOPE

by denny

In a world of hate
and heartless greed,
the dogs of death
relentless feed
upon the weak
and hopeless souls.

Where life is false,
a ghostly dream,
and faith is gone
with mortal scream.
that drowns our hopes
in misery

Yet we stand again,
alone once more,
and peer across
this mortal shore.
with dreams of that
which might have been.

For in a world of hope,
where faith resides,
and human dignity
has not yet died.
our fading dreams
might come to pass.

For faith’s the key
to this mortal cage,
so loose the chains
absolve thy rage.
grasp the future,
yours by birth

Break these chains,
release thy mind,
absolve thyself
of all that binds,
from these bonds
of flesh be free

Awaken friends,
look past this guise,
see lust and greed,
and sloth and lies,
as merely tools
for digging futures graves.

In search of life
It’s time to find
the truth of which
this earth seems blind,
that all our days are numbered
save the last.